Quick instrument identifier
There's been a huge and confusing variety of names applied to these instrument. Often the same instrument bore several different names, and occasionally the same name was used for several completely different instruments.
Here are a couple of lists which can help sort out the confusion. The first contains many of the "instrument names" which have appeared, usually on the paper label inside the soundhole. The second contains many of the names of "manufacturers", distributors, and music arrangers & publishers. Something in here is just about guaranteed to match something on your instrument! And as the links get updated, there will be detailed information available about each.
(Note - these two columns are simply in alphabetical order - there's no direct connection between the left column and the right.)
| Instrument
names
Aeol American Art Guitar American Harp American Mandolin Guitar Harp American Mandolin Harp Style B Bavarian Harp Bell Harp, 3 unrelated forms Bosstone Grand C. T. Menze's Piano Zither Celestaphone Chartola Grand Citaharp Class Instrument Chickering Harp Chromatic Harp Columbia Zither Combination Mandolin Guitar Easy Method Liberty Model 1917 Mandolin Guitar Easy Method Standard Mandolin Guitar Edison Piano Harp Eolian Harp Eureka Concert Zither EZLin Germania Harp Guitar Piano Harp Guitar Zither Guitar-O-Lin Harp Guitar Harp=O=Chord, Harp-O-Chord, HarpOChord Harpanola Hawaiian Art Guitar Hawaiian Mandolin Harp Hawaiian Tiple, 2 forms Hawaiian Violin=Guitar Hawaiiphone Hawaiolin Ideal Harp Jubaltone Liberty Harp Liberty Model Guitarophone Lyre Harp, 2 unrelated instruments Mandolin Guitar Zither Mandolin Guitarophone Marxochime Marxoharp Marxolin, numerous forms Marxophone, 2 unrelated forms Melodia Zither Menzenhauer's Guitar-Zither New Century Harp Nuway Violin Orchestrola Paramount Concert Harp, 2 unrelated forms Piano Harp Size F Pianoharp Pianolettone Pianophone Queen Zither Radio Concert Harp Radio Harp Regent Zither Reproducing Mandolin & Guitar Scribner Baby Grand Silvertone Phonoharp Sonora No. 5 Stella Piano Mandolette Stradolin Symphonette Symphony No. 5 Tremelo Harp Ukelin, 2 forms Viola-Fone Violin-Guitar ZithoHarp |
Manufacturers,
etc.
A. Eichler A. J. Beauchamp A. R. Yendrick American Mandolin Zither Co. American Music Co. American Piano Zither Co. Bell Harp Co. Bosstone Co. Chartola Co. Combination Mandolin Zither Co. Dominion Academy of Music Ed. Sutch E. H. Saenger Emil Peterson Jr. F. A. Porter F. X. Audet Federal Stock Food Co. Felix Schmidt, several addresses Geo. F. O'Connor Guitar-O-Lin Co. H. C. Marx H. S. Nace Mfg. Co., 4 locations H. W. Garvin Harp Mfg Co. Harp Guitar Mfg Co. Hemisphere Conservatory of Music Home Educational Co. Imperial Conservatory of Music International Conservatory of Music International Musical Corp. J. Abrams J. Cobe Johann Schick John J. Sloan Kunkel L. B. Dowd L. S. Gilpin Louis Daum Marx & Marx Marx Music Co. Marxochime Colony Meisenhaur Menzenhauer & Schmidt Music Specialty Co. National Number Music Co. Oscar Schmidt Oscar Schmidt-International Oscar Schmidt Musical House Otto Schmidt Pacific Zither Co. Paramount Harp Co. Radio Concert Harp Co. Satis Coleman Schmidt Musical Instrument Co. Schmidt & Porter Sonora Mfg Co. Thompson & Norris Twentieth Century Conservatory of Music United States Guitar Zither Co. United States Music Co. Walter Fowler |
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Last updated 3 Apr 05.